Brazil Upstream
Brazil Upstream is IesBrazil’s market-intelligence briefing on Brazil’s upstream sector — written in English for international executives, technology vendors, and geoscience, data, AI and cloud companies trying to understand how Brazil actually works as an E&P market.
Why EAGE 2026
“Aberdeen shows what the global industry is selling. Brazil Upstream asks what Brazil would actually buy, adopt, regulate, integrate, support, and trust.”
The editor
Rodrigo Eiras
IesBrazil Executive Director, Solution Architect
OSDU Focal Point | AI | Data Science | Spotfire | Azure | AWS
Hi, I’m Rodrigo Eiras. Most of my career has been in integrated operations rooms, production efficiency platforms, safety KPI systems, seismic data pipelines, work-permit control on assets where a missed dependency is not an inconvenience.
For the last two decades I have been operating at the seam between what a vendor ships and what an operator adopts: seismic data pipelines (VDS, SEGY, ZGY), OSDU-aligned architectures from the storage layer up, and Spotfire systems that outlive the person who built them.
These are environments where technology has to keep working after the pilot ends, after the consultant leaves, after the operator changes a process and forgets to tell anyone. The interesting problems are rarely the ones the demo solves. They show up later, on a Tuesday, in a control room, when someone needs an answer in the next ten minutes.
OSDU
I participated in the OSDU Management Committee for these last two years as one of the vendor representatives; it meant reading the standard from the inside while it was being written, which changes how you read anyone’s claim that a product is “OSDU-ready”.
Where IesBrazil fits
Brazil Upstream is published by IesBrazil and informed by the same operating reality: two decades helping international geoscience, data, AI, OSDU and software technologies meet Brazil’s E&P market.
Where the long-form lives.
The gap between what vendors pitch and what operators decide, what the data says versus what the room assumes, the small details that turn a good idea into a paid invoice or quietly kill it.
read more atbrazilupstream.substack.com
brazilupstream.substack.comBackground
MSc in Cloud Computing at UERJ, with research in distributed systems, virtualization, and performance evaluation of KVM and Docker for NFV workloads. Affiliated through the program with SBC, CNPq, CAPES and IEEE.
Peer-reviewed publications at SBRC and in IEEE venues on virtualization, container performance and HTTP proxy behaviour under load, plus applied work on TIBCO Spotfire as a BI layer for G&G data, seismic attributes and well-profile correlation.
Taught at Instituto Infnet at graduate level: cloud computing, R and RStudio, Power BI, virtualization with VMware and OpenStack, information security with Kali Linux, BI and data modeling.
Nineteen years delivering for environments where downtime is not an option: integrated operations rooms, production-efficiency and safety-KPI platforms, and Azure/AWS migrations for Petrobras, Shell, Honda and other enterprise clients.
Around the floor on the buyer side. Moving between the stands of vendors we already work with in Brazil and a few I’d like to meet. If Brazil is on your roadmap and a conversation would help, find me.